This project sets out to demonstrate that media coverage can degrade a country's image by using selective news without context. It uses the Netherlands as an example. It is a reaction to the frequent misrepresentations of Israel in many ways in major media, including those of the Netherlands.

Friday, June 30, 2017

The Telegraaf daily has requested from the police all documents
concerning the arrest of migrants. The request was based on a law which makes
this possible. The paper has been supplied with thousands of pages. Part of the
migrants from countries which are considered safe apply for asylum knowing that
there is hardly any chance of it being granted. While their application is investigated
they commit crimes using the asylum-seeker centers as a base for that. The
paper writes that the number of such crimes is always far bigger than what the
police reports.

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Mayor Jos Heijmans of Weert goes to court to force the
public prosecution to prosecute six asylum seekers. These six asylum seekers had been prohibited
from leaving their residences on New Year’s Eve but violated this prohibition. The complaint concerns that these six asylum
seekers carried out thefts and harrassed a woman on New Year’s Eve. They belong to a group of twenty North
African asylum seekers whom according to the Weert municipality cause frequent
problems. The prosecution claims that
there is not enough proof to prosecute them.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Dutch police has major computer problems. A variety of
systems cannot be reached. Among these the mobile app. on the police
apparatuses with which police personnel controls identities and writes summons.
The police still writes summons, however with pen and paper which decreases efficiency

Monday, June 26, 2017

About 40 percent of Dutch voters with
visual impairment or with mental disabilities were not properly assisted when
voting in the parliamentary election in March. This results from a study by the
College of Human Rights. Most of the trouble arose in reading and filling out
the ballot paper, and reading practical information, according to the study.

Thursday, June 22, 2017

The public prosecution has
demanded 200 hours of community service as punishment of 2 Amsterdam lawyers of
bribing a police volunteer. The volunteer
gave the lawyers offices sensitive information about victims of road
accidents. This gave them a financial advantage
over their competitors, according to the prosecutor.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

On the internet pictures appear of youngsters in the Dutch
youthjail De Hunnerberg in Nijmegen. They are holding drugs and the flags of
Islamic terror-organizations. The Ministry of Security and Justice has confirmed
that the pictures have been made in that jail. It is claimed that they are
three years old. Conversations on the subject have taken place with those detained.

Sunday, June 18, 2017

After the airing of Dutch-Turkish writer and columnist,
Ozcan Akyol weekly documentary on Turkey he received many threats from members
of the Dutch Turkish community. These
threats were far more numerous and extreme than he had expected. After the broadcast on the decreasing tourism
in the Turkish town of Antalya, he received threats that the Grey Wolves will cause
him a slow and painful death. Another
threat received, was that Akyol had ordered his own coffin in Antalya.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

A Dutch policeman has been arrested because he has leaked
information. The corrupt policeman has in the past been part of those security
agents which guarded endangered Freedom party leader Geert Wilders. Wilders reacted:
“This is incredible. The man walked around here in the corridor of our members
of parliament.”

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

A report of twelve Dutch Kings Commissioners
states that in the Dutch countryside criminals can go unhindered about their
business. There are no uniformed policemen in the public domain as there is no
patrolling. There is a lack of detection
capacity. The water police is so understaffed that they have no view on
organized crime in the harbors. Ongoing police investigations are abandoned. The
Ministry of Security and Justice did not want to comment on the commissioners
"opinion.".

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Israeli ambassador
Aviv Shir-on asked Pauline Krikke, Mayor of The Hague to condemn Muslim city
council member Abdoe Khoulani, who had called a Group
of Israeli high school students visiting the Dutch parliament "future
Zionist terrorists, occupiers and those who murder children." Krikke
refused to respond to Khoulani’s comments. (Remark: It is not the first time
Krikke fails to act properly on Muslim misbehavior. When she was Mayor of Arnhem,
she told volunteer Mehmet Shahin, who was harassed by Turkish Muslims, to “go
into hiding,” rather than giving him police protection.)

Thursday, June 8, 2017

An internal report has found 3 Professors at Leiden
University have run for 20 years a reign of terror at its Institute of Pedagogy.The culture of fear and intimidation has
manifested itself by an exodus of academic scholars who were massively
dismissed, got nervous breakdowns, or left on bad terms.The key person responsible is the
internationally well-known scholar, Marinus van IJzendoorn who has won many
prizes amongst which is the Spinoza Prize.The report was based on a 120 interviews.https://www.leidschdagblad.nl/leiden-en-regio/hoogleraren-voeren-schrikbewind-op-leidse-universiteit

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Abdoe Khoulani, a Muslim member of the Hague Municipal
Council, has called Israeli school children future child murderers. The Israeli
children were visiting the Protestant SGP Party. The youth section of the SGP has put forward a
complaint to the police. In 2014 he
supported ISIS and wrote on Facebook ‘long live ISIS and let’s go to Baghdad to
attack the scum there.’ After much
criticism, he apologized.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

An analysis by the Dutch weekly,
the Groene Amesterdammer shows that the Dutch industry is a poor
performer as far as the emissions of greenhouse gases are concerned. While the
emissions of the European industry have been reduced by 26% since 2005, those
of the Netherlands have increased by 2%.The paper says that without efforts of the industry, climate policies
are useless.

Monday, June 5, 2017

Law professor Liesbeth Zegveld claims that in 1977 Dutch marines
killed two Moluccan hostage takers of a train after they were no longer a
threat and did not offer resistance. As lawyer of their descendants she is
taking the Dutch State to court for abuse of its monopoly of violence. Zegveld
claims also that the Dutch soldiers used prohibited types of munition.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

It has now become known from a confidential report drawn up
by health inspectors in 2014 that the sperm bank at Rijnstate Hospital in
Arnhem has allowed one donor to father 50 children. This is contrary to Dutch legislation which
allows sperm donors to father up to 25 children. Other findings were that 15 donors at the
Arnhem Sperm Bank had an average of 36 children each. One doctor is accused of fathering dozens of
children himself.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Bart van Ingen, General Director of the NEC Soccer Club has
been threatened by supporters of the club.
The club was demoted from the top league of Dutch soccer. The threats were mainly on social media. As a precaution, van Ingen now has police
protection.

Welcome to the Bad News from The Netherlands blog!

News coverage from Israel is often distorted if measured against the 'Code of Ethics' guidelines of journalism. The origins of “bad news” about a country thus lie with numerous foreign media. This project exposes one of many methods used.

“Bad News from the Netherlands” has raised major international interest since it appeared on the web in October 2007. Many thanks are due to all those who have contributed news, ideas and financing. Support us to expand this project.

Act against the biased media: start a “bad news” blog about another country. If you want to use this layout, please contact us at the e-mail address below.

Do It Yourself

The "Bad News Movement" is not a franchise, but consists ofindependent initiatives of which Bad News from the Netherlands is the first. Yet as the initiator of the movement, we would like to make a few suggestions to those who want to establish similar projects:

1. Always keep in mind the target of the blog: showing only negative items about a country makes its society aware of how some of their media distort the image of Israel.2. Focus on items from leading sources such as the government, major media, well-known institutions.3. Do not concentrate on one or a few areas. Deal with as many major aspects of the country as possible: government, politics, justice, media, culture, civil society, etc.4. Do not exaggerate issues beyond what is mentioned. A collection of bad news is bad enough without blowing up the facts. Let the facts speak for themselves.5. While one can draw part of the information from the more sensational papers, let them not dominate the blog.6. Do not emphasize ethnicity of people where it is irrelevant to the issue.7. When necessary, provide comments on issues which require it, but try to present the majority of issues without comment.